An exploration by nine key thinkers of the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences, High-Pop challenges the project of cultural studies to focus on all-but-ignored forms of mainstream culture.

Jim Collins is Associate Professor of Film, Television, and English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Postmodernism (1989) and Architectures of Excess (1995), and co-editor of Film Theory Goes to the Movies (1993).